{"id":15689,"date":"2024-03-07T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=15689"},"modified":"2024-03-07T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:22:06","slug":"steven-izzo-gets-emotional-during-postgame-interview-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=15689","title":{"rendered":"Steven Izzo gets emotional during postgame interview (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Steven Izzo got emotional after a Michigan State win over Northwestern on Senior Night, thanking his dad for letting him walk on.<\/h2>\n<p>Michigan State may have not played their best game in their <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-3-takeaways-from-ugly-senior-night-win-over-northwestern\/\">53-49 win over Northwestern<\/a>, but that feels irrelevant. Yes it\u2019s important they got the win, but after the game ended I didn\u2019t have one thought in my mind about how poorly they played.<\/p>\n<p>The reason none of that matters to me is because of all the emotion surrounding the Senior Night festivities. This was arguably one of the most emotional Senior Nights of all time, and for so many reasons. But nothing was more emotional than watching Steven Izzo and Tom Izzo share their thoughts and feelings as the former&#8217;s Breslin Center career came to an end.<\/p>\n<h3>Steven Izzo gets emotional after Northwestern win<\/h3>\n<p>After the game, Steven Izzo spoke alongside Tom and it was one of the most beautiful interviews I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I&#39;m just so thankful that he allowed me to walk-on five years ago.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Steven Izzo gets emotional in this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSU_Basketball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MSU_Basketball<\/a> senior night interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAndyKatz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheAndyKatz<\/a>. \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j0eeCxsh2v\">pic.twitter.com\/j0eeCxsh2v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigTenNetwork\/status\/1765561865642381727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This moment is something Steven has dreamed of his entire life. I imagine Tom likely has as well. Steven has been around the program his entire life, but all those years don\u2019t even compare to what he\u2019s been able to experience these last five years. Steven said, \u201cI&#8217;m just so thankful that he allowed me to walk on five years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not only was Steven part of the team, he also gets to say that he\u2019s contributed. Whether that be in off-the-court settings or the <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/steven-izzo-scores-first-career-points-on-wild-and-one-video\/\">basket he scored earlier this year<\/a>, Steven\u2019s name will forever be tied to this basketball program.<\/p>\n<p>Steven went on to further say that joining the team five years ago was \u201cthe greatest decision I\u2019ve ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watching this interview, you can tell just how close Steven and Tom have become. Even though the last few years haven\u2019t been the best on the court, I\u2019d bet they have been Tom\u2019s favorite years as head coach by far.<\/p>\n<p>I usually don\u2019t get emotional watching interviews, but I couldn\u2019t help but feel all the emotion from this interview. What we have at Michigan State is special, and this is just another example of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[190,189,504,429,211],"class_list":["post-15689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-steven-izzo","tag-tom-izzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}